The Roth Family Neighborhood (Before)
- Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey
- On Summit Avenue
- Live in the Weequahic neighborhood built on farm lots at the undeveloped southwest edge of Newark just after WWI
- Summit Avenue sat at the crest of the neighborhood hill, an elevation as high as any in a port city that rarely rises a hundred feet above the tidal salt marsh.
- The owners of the local candy, grocery, furniuture, and service stores were owned by neighborhood men.
- There were Jewish docters and lawyers and successful merchants who owned big stores downtown and live in one family houses.
- The men worked fifty to seventy hours in the week or possibly more.
- The women worked at home cleaning, shopping, cooking, and taking care of the children.
- Work was identified for the Jewish people more than their religion
- The Jewish parents and their children talked to each other in American english.
- Hardly anyone spoke with an accent
- Nobody in the neighborhood d
ressed in old world style or wore the skull cap.
Local Jewish market